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Subject: Re: Reminder Revised OASIS Membership Agreement - Review ends 15 Nov
At 05:36 PM 11/10/2004 -0500, member_services@oasis-open.org wrote: >Dear Lofton Henderson, > >[...]Your fellow Individual Members asked about the words below and the >words in the current draft of the Membership Agreement. The words below >express the intent - the words in the current version of the MA are one >earler attempt at creating the right words. Your input here would be helpful. I asked for clarification, http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/member-agreement-review/200411/msg00000.html but have gotten none yet. At our face-to-face meeting this week, several people agreed that the draft Membership Agreement -- esp clause 9, together with definitions of Necessary Affiliate and Ultimate Parent -- seemed to provide a way for individual members to participate. Specifically, Individual Members whose IP is owned by an employer (contract consultant, regular, etc). The referenced "words below" are imprecise and don't help to answer this question. Is the following a correct reading? That 9b and 9c, plus definitions of Ultimate Parent and Necessary Affiliate -- these together aim to provide a way for working Individual Members (on limited-term contracts, as regular employees, etc) to participate? By having those for whom they work endorse appropriate IPR terms? >Your comments regarding the terms and structure of the Membership >agreement agreement will be helpful, in this forum. We want an agreement >that works for our Individual members. If the answer to my above question is "yes", then the Membership Agreement satisfies our earlier objections. If "no", then it emphatically does not work. This point was raised in a unanimously endorsed earlier (summer) comment from the WebCGM TC. Sorry for the "conditional" reply, but we really are unable unambiguously reconcile this material. Could you please ask the OASIS legal counsel to give an answer/interpretation? (Since he probably is the one who wrote the Membership Agreement.) Regards, Lofton Henderson
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